Yarmuth to Bevin: Your Medicaid plan 'will fail'

FRANKFORT, Ky. — U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth on Tuesday called on Gov. Matt Bevin to withdraw his proposal to reshape Kentucky's Medicaid program and reconsider his request for a waiver from the federal government to enact the changes.

Speaking at a press conference at the Capitol, Yarmuth, a Louisville Democrat, said it's clear that the U.S. Health and Human Services Department will reject the plan because the agency recently rejected similar changes proposed by other states.

"There is no longer any argument about the outcome of your strategy," Yarmuth says to Bevin in a letter that was released Tuesday. "It will fail."

Bevin, a Republican, has proposed curtailing the state's Medicaid program, expanded by executive order under his predecessor, Democrat Steve Beshear, because he says the expansion under the federal Affordable Care Act is not sustainable.

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[font color=330099]Bevin is willing to kick 440,000 people off of Medicaid for ideological purposes.[/font]